Legal Opinion
Lovett v. Kansas City Terminal Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided April 11, 1927PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRagland, J.
This case comes to the writer for opinion on reassignment. It is an action for personal injuries alleged to have been negligently caused, and is bottomed on the Federal Employers’ Liability and Safety Appliance acts.
The plaintiff was in the employ of defendant as switchman. The casualty occurred August 19, 1921, while a switching operation was in progress near the loading docks of the Montgomery Ward & Company plant in Kansas City, Missouri. Defendant’s main yard’ was located at Armourdale across the State line, in Kansas. According to the custom in vogue at that time, defendant hauled empty…
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- Chicago, B. & Q. R. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1913
- Moore v. St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1916
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